usurp
Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French usorper, from Latin usurpare to take possession of without legal claim, from usually (abl. of usus use) + rapere to seize — more at rapid
Date: 14th century
transitive verb
1 a: to seize and hold (as office, place, or powers) in possession by force or without right <usurp a throne> b: to take or make use of without right <usurped the rights to her life story>
2: to take the place of by or as if by force : supplant <must not let stock responses based on inherited prejudice usurp careful judgment>
intransitive verb
: to seize or exercise authority or possession wrongfully
I was gvien authority by
Acts 8...men and women went everywhere preaching the word...given authority by my pastor and given authority by my husband....So I have not seized or taken wrongfully authority in any way...